A plea seeking a ban on 2018 Indian Premier League cricket matches on the ground that it leads to wastage of lakhs of litres of water prompted the National Green Tribunal to seek responses from the Centre, BCCI and others.

A plea seeking a ban on 2018 Indian Premier League cricket matches on the ground that it leads to wastage of lakhs of litres of water prompted the National Green Tribunal to seek responses from the Centre, BCCI and others.

Setting up a huge political controversy, officials in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur - the home base of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath - blacked out the counting for parliamentary bypolls and banned the media allegedly as soon as trends started favouring the opposition candidate over that of the ruling BJP. The media regained access only after protests ...

The Delhi High Court has stayed the Central government's notification, as the bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar questioned the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) to examine this matter and directed that there would be no challans till April 18.

The government is planning to make the sale of non-ISI helmets an offence by the end of the year, when all helmet manufacturers will need to obtain Indian standards certification from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).

Rahul Gandhi, at an interaction with members of the Indian community in Malaysia, took a stinging swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sudden decision to demonetise high-value currency notes in 2016. The Congress president has been a consistent critic of the notes ban decision and the way it was implemented, forcing millions of Indians to stand ...